BEIRUT (AFP CAIRO) - The latest research on the fossil snake was estimated to 95 million years old, revealed that there are two small leg bone connected to the hip bone of the animal.
As reported by LiveScience, February 10, 2011, fossils found in the village of Al-Nammoura, Lebanon comes from the era in which the snake had not lost their rear legs.
Three-dimensional reconstruction of these bones will soon be conducted to help researchers understand how the snake lost his legs until it evolved.
The debate among the paleontologist who warms up is whether the ancestor was a snake-legged lizards that swim in water or a lizard who crawls on the ground.
"A leg bone length of one inch (2.5 centimeters) seen in the fossil snake Lebanon. Unfortunately, half of the pelvis snake was buried in stone, "said Alexandra Houssaye, researchers from the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France.
